BibleDriven

Archive for August, 2009

For those of you interested in matters related to ancient manuscripts of the New Testament (including digital photos of many manuscripts), check out The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. I have the privilege right now of helping the Center to index a number of manuscripts that have recently been photographed (which is sharpening my Greek some but also straining my little eyes). This project as a whole should prove a tremendous boost to New Testament manuscript study around the world. Kudos to Dr. Daniel Wallace, et al. for undertaking this important work.

Carson began the devotional with this true observation: “When people know little about the God who has actually disclosed himself, it is terribly easy for them to sink into some perverted view of this God, until the image held of him has very little to do with the reality.”

He concluded with this troubling illustration: “Yesterday I received in the mail a letter from one of America’s premier television preachers, inviting me to send money and offering me in return a Christmas tree ornament of an ‘angel’ with a trumpet, to remind me that God had commanded the angel looking after me to blow a trumpet to celebrate me. What kind of pared-down and domesticated image of God do such leaders hold that they should utter such nonsense?” (D. A. Carson, from the August 14 Devotional, For the Love of God)

Indeed!